Attitude...Tomorrow

Dear All,

I have a friend call Ah Yap who is a electrical engineer.
Now, Yap is one of those guy you love to hate.
He is always in a good mood and always have something positive to say.
When someone ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "if I were any better,
I would be twins!". He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day,
Yap was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the
situation.

Seeing his style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Yap and asked him,
"I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all the time. How do you do it?"
Yap replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have 2 choices today.
You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad one.
I choose to be in a good mood.
Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose
to learn from it.
I choose to learn from it. Everytime someone comes to me complaining, I can
choose to accept
their complaint or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the
positive side of life.

"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. "Yes, it is, " Yap said. "
Life is all about choices.
When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice.
You choose how to react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be
in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line : It's your choice how you live life.
I reflected on what Yap said.

I've lost touch with Yap for over 10 yrs, but I often thought about him when
I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. 3 months ago , I heard that Yap was involved in a serious accident, falling
some 30 feet from a communication tower. After 18 hrs. of surgery and weeks
of intensive care,
Yap was discharge from hospital with iron rods placed in his back.
I saw Yap last week after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he
replied. "If I were any better,
I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but I did
ask him what had gone
through his mind as the accident took place. " The first thing that went
through my mind was the
well being of my soon to be born son, " Yap replied. " Then, as I lay on the
ground, I remember that I
had 2 chioces : I could choose to live or I could choose to die. I choose to
live.
"Were't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. Yap continued,
".... the paramedics were great.
They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into
emergency room and I
saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really
scared. In their eyes,
I read "he's a dead man. I knew I needed to take action.

"What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big fat nurse shouting
questions at me," said Yap.
"She asked if I was allergic to anything" Yes, I replied. The doctors and
nurses stopped working as
they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, "Gravity." Over
their laughter, I told them,
"I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I'm alive, not dead. "Yap lived,
thanks to the skill of his
doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.
I learn from him last week that every day we have the choice to be
successful and live fully.

Attitude, after all , is everything.
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day have enough trouble of its own".